Adam Scherr was recently interviewed by Shakiel Mahjouri of CBS Sports, where he spoke about his struggles with mental health.
"Learning to actually discuss my problems. Everybody has problems and itās so faux pas to swallow your feelings. That doesnāt work. It does for a while, but eventually, youāre going to swallow so much that youāre going to explode. Thatās what happened to me⦠Your friends, your family, your loved ones. Thatās the cool thing about human beings and what has set us apart from the animal kingdom and deemed us superior on this Earth is our ability to work together to overcome obstacles⦠I want to be remembered for something more than just beating the sāt out of people in a wrestling ring."
On the mental health app Diskuss.
"Itās in its blooming faces. We launched it right around Thanksgiving and it really started to grow⦠It gives you licensed certified therapists, mental coaches, life coaches in the palm of your hand by audio, video, text message services 24 hours a day. Itās fully encrypted so all your information is protected. But the coolest thing is it gives you the opportunity to do it from the comfort of your own home. A lot of people, myself included when I went and talked to somebody for the first time, are really, really nervous about it. Having that option to do it from home where youāre really, really comfortable is going to help a lot more people be able to overcome a lot of people overcome obstacles theyāre dealing with in their lives."
Back in 2020, Scherr (when he was Braun Strowman) tweeted out the following and got a lot of backlash:
āHere we go with more of the somebody pay for my bills stuff. If you canāt afford to pay your bills maybe you should change professions. Thatās why I quit strongman I loved it but I couldnāt afford to live so instead of making a go fund me or a patreon⦠and for anyone that goes thatās easy for you to say youāre a wwe superstar just and FYI 7 years ago I moved to fl with everything I owned in a Kia Soul with 150$ to my name when I started this!!!!!ā
Scherr reflected upon the controversial tweets.
"I still believe in it. In my opinion, people took it out of context. Did it age terribly? Absolutely. I made that comment months before the lockdown, before all of this stuff. Of course, everybody ran wild with it and tried to make more out of it than it really was for the clickbait. At the end of the day, it was motivational ā in my opinion ā what I was trying to talk about⦠Sometimes in life your goals and what you dream about, you canāt do. Thatās the point, dry and simple. So many people, I think, have gotten complacent with putting their problems and making somebody elseās thereās⦠Sometimes you need to control your own destiny. Thatās how it was with me in strongman. I was in the top five strongest guys on the planet. I loved it. I didnāt want to leave the sport, but I couldnāt pay my bills. So there comes a time when you have to realize what is an achievable and attainable goal for what you have to do to survive. That was how all that got taken out of context. Some people donāt like it. Some people do. Either way, it doesnāt bother me done. Thatās what I still believe. Iāve worked my butt off for everything Iāve ever gotten in my entire life. It was a motivational thing to tell people, āHey, sometimes this may not work out for you. Go and try something else. Look what can happen.ā Thatās what it was for me. Look what I was doing. I took a chance and look what I made out of it."